REVISION SPE3510

What the the functions of the Circulatory System? (Multiple answers)

• Transports materials (gases, nutrients, waste products, molecules, hormones) to different

  parts of the body

• Removes waste products (cell waste and carbon dioxide)

• helps your body move

• Fights diseases

The heart and the blood vessels are the major parts of the circulatory system.

• True

• False

The heart is a ______ which contracts and expands like a pump to circulate blood throughout the body.

• bone

• spongy tissue

• muscle

• blood vessel

Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.

• True

• False

Veins carry blood back to the heart

• true

• false

How many chambers does the heart have?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What is the main function of the heart?

• exchange gases

• circulate blood throughout the body

• produce red blood cells

• remove waste materials from the body

The circulatory system works with the ___________ system to provide our body with oxygen.

• muscular

• digestive

• respiratory

• skeletal

What heart is about the size and shape of....

• basketball

• baseball

• toe

• fist

The cells in the blood that help fight germs and illnesses are the...

• white blood cells

• red blood cells

• plasma

• platelets